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MATH 3A CHAPTER 12 POWERPOINT PRESENTATION. GEOMETRY AND IMAGINATION. LEARNING TARGETS. AFTER YOU COMPLETE THIS CHAPTER, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO: IDENTIFY HOW GEOMETRIC FIGURES INTERSECT IN SPACE. WRITE EQUATIONS FOR LOCI. CONNECT SIMPLE AND COMPOUND LOCI. DESCRIBE COMPOUND LOCI.
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MATH 3A CHAPTER 12 POWERPOINT PRESENTATION GEOMETRY AND IMAGINATION
LEARNING TARGETS • AFTER YOU COMPLETE THIS CHAPTER, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO: • IDENTIFY HOW GEOMETRIC FIGURES INTERSECT IN SPACE. • WRITE EQUATIONS FOR LOCI. • CONNECT SIMPLE AND COMPOUND LOCI. • DESCRIBE COMPOUND LOCI.
LINES IN THE PLANE AND IN SPACE • IN THE PLANE: FOR A 2-D FIGURE, IT IS EASY TO THINK ABOUT LINES LIKE A RADIUS OR A DIAMETER. THE LOCUS OF POINT FROM A GIVEN CENTER IS A CIRCLE. • IN SPACE: THE LOCUS OF POINTS IN SPACE AT EQUAL DISTANCES FROM A GIVEN POINT IS A SPHERE.
Loci In The Coordinate Plane • Think of parallel lines, horizontal lines, vertical lines. When they are on a graph, the locations of the points can be used to solve many problems. • Finding a midpoint, the equidistant locus, perpendicular bisectors, locus of points that forma circle. All of this is how we discover the loci in the coordinate plane.
Equation for a Circle • r² = x² + y²
COMPOUND LOCI • YOU HAVE LEARNED HOT TO VISUALIZE LOCI, NOW WE WILL LOOK AT LOCI THAT SATISFY MORE THAN ONE CONDITION AT A TIME CALLED COMPOUND LOCI.
Now – Use Your Imagination to Figure Out How Shapes Intersect in the Real World
Can You Find Some Other Examples • In machines • In buildings • In bridges • In cars, trucks, planes, ships, busses • In chemistry, medicine • In nature?????